"We didn`t know whatwe were making three years ago," John Noble said, looking back on thefirst two seasons of Fox`s compelling, creepy and quirky sci-fi show"Fringe." "We knew we`d put together this disparate group of people -Olivia (Anna Torv), Peter (Joshua Jackson) and Walter (Noble) - to solvethese odd crimes, but at that point we didn`t have, or I didn`t have,much of an idea of where it would travel.
I didn`t have an idea thatwe`d travel into this alternate universe we`ve been in. Certainly Ididn`t know that.
"I suspect that Jeff Pinkner, our show runner, had some of these ideasrunning in his head," Noble surmised, "because he did create theplatform from which to go. But the 1st half of the first season wewere just jumping around the office trying to get something that worked.We were doing almost procedural stuff, and that didn`t feel quiteright. We were trying to produce the personality stuff, and that didfeel right.
"So around Episode 10 we did a part and said, `OK, let people get toknow Olivia.` We concentrated on Olivia and her background, and herrelationships with Peter and Walter. That set us up for a good finish toSeason 1 and set us up for a really strong Season 2. I think Season 2was far more solid. We knew where we were going and the characters hadbeen established and, when you make that, you can go pretty muchanywhere and people will go with you."
Enough people went on for the mountain that Fox renewed "Fringe" for athird season, and that season will begin tonight with an episodeentitled "Olivia." The hour will pick up where the two-partsecond-season finale, "Over There," left off, with forces from the otherside, or Over There, ready to pay war with the world as we know it, orOver Here, and "our" Olivia imprisoned by the alternate-universeWalter, or "Walternate." The alternate Olivia was last seen trying toblend in Over Here.
"We finished in the finale last year by crossing over," Noble said inhis still-thick Australian accent, "and there was a switch done right atthe end. So the Other Side Olivia came over here as a spy, really, andour girl was captured there by Walternate. So the mind is, `What`sthe reason for that?`
"We go to do that question and take you the reasons in Season 3,"he said. "The Other Side Olivia comes Over Here to spy on us and findout what our technology is, what our administration are, how we operate.That`s common sense, really, in a war.
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